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That Doug Williams thing, when he left,

the story goes there was a curse on the franchise.

Hugh Coverhaus, all those years ago,

had led him walk away over a difference of $200,000.

So years following Doug's Super Bowl victory,

he's out of the league, he's retired.

Doug becomes the coach at Grambling.

He replaces the great Eddie Robinson

at this historically Black college.

Didn't have a lot of money.

So it's an HBCU.

You don't always have all the same funding.

You can't compete with the type of funding

that an Alabama or an Auburn is gonna get.

It's often tough to get that funding.

So Doug receives a phone call in 2002

from of all people, Hugh Coverhaus Jr.

Hugh is a lawyer in Miami.

The team has been sold.

But he wanted to donate to the Grambling Football Program.

He stood up.

And he gave me $275,000 just for the football program.

You know, it wasn't about his dad, it was about him.

And the way he looked at it

and the way he felt about the things I had went through.

And I'm gonna always be grateful to Coverhaus Jr., man,

because he showed a lot of heart.

And I certainly appreciate that.

This was in 2002.

Four months later, the Buccaneers were gonna have

a chance to win. their very first Super Bowl.

And the Tampa Bay Buccaneers ride to the Super Bowl

with that one.

The NFC Championship game just concluded in Philadelphia.

The final game in Veteran Stadium.

And what a perfect scenario it was.

Okay, you're ready.

On seven.

One, two, three.

For the first time in team history,

you can honestly say

the Buccaneers are in the Super Bowl.

There you go, baby.

The NFC champions are right there.

Give it up for your Bucs, make sure they hear you!

27 years, the Buccaneers have waited

before they've gone to the Super Bowl.

Their very first year in 1976, they lost 26 straight games.

Now, in season number 27,

they're heading to the Super Bowl.

It's 1:30 in the morning.

We had the four-year-old out at 1:30.

- What's going on, man? - Ain't no school tomorrow.

All y'all gonna be late for work.

January 19th, 2003, will go down.

as the greatest day to this point

in Tampa Bay Sports History.

We are on our way to San Diego and the Super Bowl!

Well, the interesting part about the NFC Championship game

against Philadelphia is

we had to prepare for two games in one,

because that is the last year that the NFL

did not have a bye in between Super Bowls.

Oh, we didn't have any time to not shift gears

and go back to work.

Like, we were back in the air 12 hours after we landed.

Everyone gets two weeks now, so you're trying to get practice.

The coaches stayed behind for game planning.

They didn't even come out for a few days.

Because I wanted our coaches to stay in the office in Tampa,

where we had all our equipment, all our films,

and we could put together the best possible game plan.

So I said, we're gonna have the team travel by themselves,

no coaches, and we made Simeon Rice the chaperone.

He's in charge of bed check. Can you imagine that?

The bed check guy,

the guy that's notoriously flaking on bed check.

Now I'm in the most hypocritical scenario.

Oh, I have fun.

I break curfew.

I'm gonna set the tone right.

1999, when I was playing for the Arizona Cardinals,

I went on a trip on a ski weekend in Colorado,

one of my best friends, and we were watching

Tampa Bay play the Rams in the NFC Championship game.

I never forget this.

It was like yesterday.

A little frustration when you do as well as Tampa Bay did.

You get that close to the Super Bowl, and it's not to be.

We were watching that game, and he looked over at me.

He said, Simeon, if they had you, they would have won.

I'm like, they would have won.

He's 100% right.

Simeon Rice and our team, that's probably a strip sack.

And we recovered the football, and the game's over.

The ability was crazy.

I mean, crazy, talented guy.

Hey, if we can get Simeon, it's great.

Well, we were working on it.

Because we were going back and forth about the contract

and how we were doing it, and I just got on the phone with him.

I said, listen, bro, within the first two years,

we're gonna have a Super Bowl.

I said, I could promise you that.

And Simeon, you know, to his credit,

he turned down a big potential deal in New York.

Took our deal, which was a one-year deal

for a million dollars. Unguaranteed.

I think we were all stunned that he accepted it.

But we were happy to have him.

I wanted to put my performance with guys

that played at that level and had the same mindset.

I'll say this, defense, we're the best in the world.

We're the best in the world.

Don't change a damn thing.

Offensively, let's deal with the speed of these linebackers.

Let's make sure there are no questions now.

We play our game.

This is the biggest game in our careers.

We're going over the Raiders offense,

and I'm telling them everything I know about Rich Gannon

and their audibles and their system and their hand signals.

And one of the plays that Gannon

was shredding people with was Sluggo Seam.

It was a slant and go,

and if the guy was wide open, he'd throw it.

But he really didn't want to throw the Sluggo.

He would pump it like he was throwing it,

and the safety would run over there to intercept it,

and they would throw the seam route for big money

to Jerry Rice or Tim Brown on the other side.

It's called Sluggo Seam.

Gruden knew this team so well

and knew every check, every cadence.

He could imitate Rich Gannon and did so in practice.

He literally got under center

and was running the scout team offense.

You know, John was a third string quarterback at Dayton,

who wasn't Rich Gannon.

I got to have fun doing this.

I mean, you just can't feel pressure

and get overwhelmed with the anxiety.

I try to fire you up, man.

Get you excited.

What defined that Super Bowl for me

is the locker room before the game.

It was quiet, and they were just so locked in.

I mean, you could see it.

It's been all these years.

We've been pounding right to the edge all these years.

And fall short, fall short, fall short.

The calm before the storm, the humbling of yourself,

the realization that there's a 50-50 chance

you could lose this game.

Man, I felt so much pressure that game.

You don't think I even talked to anybody

because I was concerned because it was my worst,

worst warm-up of my career.

It was to the point where I couldn't

make a kick in warm-ups.

Please let this be the day that we win the game,

but this cannot be my bad day.

- The spokesman. - What's up, boss?

Get your hands warm.

Let's bring it up, guys, everybody up.

That stage out there, man.

It's the most beautiful stage of all.

The way I see it is the most beautiful woodshed

I've ever seen.

Not a guy in this room feels any pressure.

You apply it, 60 minutes of speed and precision.

Our father, who art in Heaven,

Hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come,

thy will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread,

forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those

who trespass against us.

Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil.

Thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory

forever and ever, Amen.

Welcome to Super Bowl 37.

The much anticipated matchup between the Oakland Raiders

and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

I tried to be the last guy out because it was the Raiders.

You see all your old players.

And yeah, you can't help but be emotional.

And then you see Al Davis.

I want to beat their ass bad.

I was like outside my body.

I wanted it personally really bad.

Here we go, nine-nine.

Ooh!

Let's go, man. Let's go.

You've been working at this for a long time.

- It's an opportunity. - Ooh!

Somebody done scared you! Somebody done scared you!

I like it. Let's go.

I can't wait till the toe hits the leather.

We're getting pretty close.

Stepped up to every challenge that's been presented to us.

It's the greatest opportunity you can have in this game.

And we're going to conquer it.

We're the best team in this house.

Win on three. One, two, three.

Win.

And the Buccaneers will have the football first.

Second play of the game. I drop back...

I get hit.

Lofting it to the right,

and it's picked off by Charles Woodson, an easy pick.

Throw an interception on the second play of the game.

The Raiders in good shape right off the bat.

First round, we went out there on defense,

and we immediately got a stop.

And Simeon Rice was dominant, those first few plays.

Under pressure, Simeon Rice sacks him at the 23.

Gannon did not have a chance to pull the trigger.

Simeon gets a sack and hold him to a field goal.

You know, we were saying, this is all they have.

Far West, right, slot.

Throw a pick, and you play bad,

everybody's slapping you on the face.

So that was a key moment for me, not to panic.

Dropping Johnson does the ball, caught Jurevicius.

To the 50, to the 45, Joe Jurevicius,

just like last week in Philadelphia,

makes a catch and takes off down the sideline.

I just think we played with pace,

assignments were done, and I think that translated

on the football field on Sunday.

Here comes Gramatica.

They're trying to tie the game.

The jitters that you have to have in a game of this size.

From 31, that one is good.

Luckily I was able to kind of focus, lock in.

It was a 43-yard attempt by Gramatica.

And all the kicks went in the game.

It is good!

Bucs lead for the first time in a Super Bowl.

That was the moment where like, this is it, this is our game.

Dexter, don't let him pull you with his pumps.

We'll get to our landmarks.

I remember Gruden saying,

"If they ever get into the boundary side

"around the 50-yard line, there's a high probability

that Sluggo Seam's coming."

Hey! Sluggo Seam! Sluggo Seam!

Before that snap, formation,

it's all screaming at you.

Sluggo Seam. Sluggo Seam.

And everybody's echoing.

- Sluggo Seam. - Sluggo Seam.

From the 45, Gannon pump fake,

looking to his right, going to his left.

Intercepted! Dexter Jackson to the 40!

To the 35, to the 50, he's to the 45!

Dexter Jackson has two!

Dexter? Dexter, I told you, buddy.

I told you.

Was it Sluggo Seam?!

Because we were so detailed and put so much time into our prep.

Hell, you're an idiot if you don't know

that Sluggo Seam's coming there.

If you prepare it with us.

And that separated us.

Called it, money! I called it.

Told him right before the snap, it's Sluggo Seam.

We lead by three and want more.

Throws it back, caught Keyshawn inside the 30.

1st down, Tampa Bay.

The offense came out and they was hitting every cylinder.

And now it's pounding the rock time.

They'll run Pitman up the right to the 20.

Pitman cuts into the 15th and Pitman to the five!

He's down on the two-yard line,

almost took it to the house.

It's first down and goal, Tampa Bay.

Come on! Hold that rock!

Hand off, Allstott.

Good by Allstott.

Touchdown, Tampa Bay!

We lead 12-3.

I remember Mike just kind of put his head down

and watching the Raiders linebacker's

head just kind of shake.

Childhood dream to be able to score a touchdown

in the Super Bowl.

That was surreal.

Now I'm just going to do my thing.

And I did my thing.

Here is the snap they will run, Garner.

He's clobbered in the backfield by Simeon Rice.

Simeon Rice, it was unbelievable.

The pressure he put on Rich Gannon.

It's almost as if the Bucs know exactly

what the Raiders are going to do.

Mike, every play they've run, we ran in practice.

I know. It's unreal.

Well, that's what happens when your coach was their coach.

Let's score, Bucs in the closing 41 seconds of the half.

Here's the snap Brad dropping, throwing.

The hot receiver, caught! Keenan McCardell!

Tampa Bay!

The Bucs are up 20-3 on Super Bowl Sunday in San Diego.

Nobody getting three touchdowns on my defense.

It ain't happening.

Ain't gonna happen.

He can't stop that.

Collars too big to come get me.

Keep running hard. Protect the ball.

We've got 30 minutes of hustle our ass off me.

You leave it all right there, baby.

And we are going to do what we came to do.

Listen up, man. Tampa owned the first half.

Good.

It's got to be great the second half.

Now it's all about the momentum.

You had it going in.

Now you've got to carry it over.

The pass is caught by McCardell.

Touchdown.

Atta baby!

When we got the lead, it was like piranhas.

I mean, they were on a mission.

I mean, the pass rush heated up.

Gannon to the outside.

I'm breaking to go get this thing.

I don't think I'm going to make it there,

but at least make the tackle.

And out of nowhere, 26 just goes.

And it is intercepted by Dwight Smith, the Nickelback.

I was like, what the hell just happened?

Who took that ball?

He gets by Gannon and goes in for the touchdown.

It's a 44-yard interception return.

We had this big comfortable lead,

and we just started falling apart in the third quarter.

Rich Gannon's in the hurry-up mode now

as the Raider Nation looks on and worries.

He's looking now back to his right,

throws the deep route toward the end zone.

Caught, out of bounds, no good.

Callahan challenges the Raider Nation.

With a roar, they want a touchdown.

He doesn't have control of that ball.

Eruption if they overturn this.

After reviewing the play,

it's been determined that the receiver

possessed and caught the ball with both feet in bounds.

Are you out of your mind? Are you out of your skull?

Most ridiculous touchdown ever given

in the history of the Super Bowl.

And a 25-point Tampa Bay lead.

And that is blocked, and that's exactly what the Raiders need

if anything to get back in the game.

And it's taken into the end zone by Eric Johnson

for a touchdown.

How's that happen, Bill?

And Rod Maranelli, the best D-line coach there is,

he will rotate players.

And next to me is Simeon Rice.

And over here is Sapp.

- Hey, Rod. - Oh, boy.

Can you put these guys back in the game?

Yes, sir. Gotcha.

From the 48-third down, Gannon dropping, gets the pass away.

It is caught in the 15, 5 touchdown Oakland Raiders.

And the Buccaneer lead that had been huge

is now getting a little bit tighter.

They get right back in this thing, so I'm uneasy.

We knew that Oakland would make a run,

and we needed to be prepared to withstand that run.

Defense got us to the Super Bowl,

and they're trying to win it for us.

Gannon drops back.

I see that he doesn't see me.

He throws it, I'ma get it.

Been Gannon looking, Gannon looking,

Gannon throws up a bit.

Intercepted at the 40!

Derrick Brooks, 30, Brooks to the 20.

Derrick Brooks all the way.

We're gonna win the Super Bowl.

Could there be a better way, for the Buccaneers

to put the ultimate exclamation point on it?

That was the play that,

as they say, sealed the deal.

That we were gonna be Super Bowl champions.

Champions, man! I'm so proud of you, man.

Derrick Brooks is your 2002 NFL Defensive Player of the year.

He's had an incredible season,

scored four touchdowns during the regular season,

and absolutely the most fitting,

possible moment for Derrick Brooks

to be the one to give the Buccaneers

that first Lombardi Trophy.

Ronde! We're world champs, buddy.

We're world champs.

Give me that. Give me that.

Whoo!

This is the thing that you have now,

and you will have forever.

How about those Tampa Bay Buccaneers?

All right.

And as fate has it, my touchdown was our eighth touchdown.

Well, Oakland goes out and try to throw the ball again.

It's picked off intercepted down the sideline.

I was running down there with him.

I couldn't believe it.

I jump over dead bodies.

Touchdown Tampa Bay!

I think I gave...

Boom, boom! Super Bowl, baby!

Boom, boom, boom!

From 0-26 to Super Bowl champions.

That ended up being our ninth touchdown,

and Coach Gruden had challenged us to nine touchdowns

before the season started, and we were able to accomplish that.

We put an exclamation point,

some stamps, certification, the whole nine yards

on this championship.

Five interceptions, five sacks, three touchdowns.

I said, you got it. That's nine.

Give me my damn hat.

And he had it, and I turned around and I put it on.

Yeah, he had the hat. He had the championship hat,

and I still got that hat to this day.

So I was the first person to start going to the stands,

and the security was trying to tell me,

you know, I'm like, get your ass out of my way,

move out of the way, I'm going up and getting my family.

Because I was like, it's over, the game's over with now.

But then everybody else saw me,

and then they started going up and getting their kids

and bringing them down.

It was such a great feeling,

and I'm really happy that we went through so much struggle,

because I think it made it that much sweeter,

because you've been to the darkest of darks,

come through that on the other side, on top.

You love that?

Man, that's a really good feeling.

Confetti and everything coming down on us,

holding my kid in my arm, you know.

Can't get any better. Can't get any better.

I'm out there at midfield, holding my son Max,

and with John Gruden, we're saying,

we're going to Disney World.

Man, that's the greatest feeling in the world, man.

How about that, Mr. Glazer?

We did it, man.

Best in the world, man.

I love you, man.

Can't thank you, can't tell you how much I love you.

Let him go, let him go!

I love you.

Seeing the two of them hugging,

and every time I tell the story I get emotional,

my father is... laughing,

in a way, that I've never heard him laugh his entire life.

It took 27 years to get here.

It took us 60 minutes to bring home the trophy.

We got the best fans in the whole world.

Tampa Bay, Tampa Bay, we love you.

I remember for myself, I'd be on the stage,

kind of way in the back corner,

just seeing my family up there,

sheer elation amongst all of them,

my father, John Gruden, we were Super Bowl champions.

I get in the car after the game.

And we're driving out of the stadium

and right over there is a car with Al Davis

and his security guy named Butch.

But I remember telling the driver, I said,

just sit here for a few minutes, you know?

And I just remember that, you know?

I don't know why I'm thinking that,

but I really never could get over that.

Coach Dungy left a lot of us voicemails.

Later that night, it was a voicemail from Coach.

Congratulations. I knew you guys would do it,

and hopefully we'll be playing you guys

in the Super Bowl next year.

Nobody's going to pass these Bucs.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are celebrating

a Super Bowl championship today.

There had never been anything like it

in the sports history of Tampa Bay.

More than 65,000 people jammed

into Raymond James Stadium

to welcome back the Super Bowl champion Buccaneers.

When they opened the stadium to everybody,

a lot of these people weren't season ticker holders.

They were just maybe people that couldn't afford

to come to Bucs games.

It was just every person that led the Bucs

that could be there for there.

The level of fandom at that moment

was as high as I've ever seen it.

We knew it would be sweet.

I didn't know it would be this sweet.

This is unreal, man.

It is in its rightful place, home.

This is such a cathartic moment for this entire community

to be able to just, you know, to finally be a winner.

I'd like you to join me tonight saying this.

Pound that rock! Pound that rock!

From the tiniest Bucs fans...

Number one!

To the loudest,

Pewter Pride has taken over downtown Tampa.

So many years of frustration

and relief just finally happened.

It's awesome.

- 27 years, man. - That's right.

What do you think today?

I think that nobody's working.

Everybody's at the bridge.

We came around that bay shore through downtown

and I looked up in those parking garages,

and it was red poking out of every little hole.

Oh my God, it was more than I could imagine.

People are just so proud of the fact that we,

the Bay Area, after all the years of losing games,

now we get to call ourselves champions

and no one can take that from us.

I remember the joy, the passion,

the relief, the excitement

that we had being the first team

to really deliver a championship to Tampa Bay.

It was really something.

Nobody's got fans like the Tampa Bay fans.

Nobody! Nobody in the world!

There's a storm warning out there.

We got a heck of a football team.

We're just getting started, so keep in tune with us.

I love you. Thank you.

Hey, Tampa!

This is about you, baby. I love you!

Repeat! Repeat! Repeat! Repeat! Repeat!

Here we go.

You want to stay in that big, beautiful mansion you built?

Do you or not?

You want to stay in that mansion?

You start laying up rocks.

You got to pay the bills, man.

You got to pay the rent to win it again.

We had the team. We had the players.

We had the right mindset.

There was only one goal.

That was to go back to back, to win another Super Bowl.

Super Bowl champions usually host the season opener.

For some reason, even though they were Super Bowl champions,

they were going to have to go on the road

and open at Philadelphia

in a new stadium, Lincoln Financial Field.

That was pretty much the most NFL thing

that league could do to Tampa,

telling us that we're still the red-headed step child.

The Tampa Bay Bucs, they are very well positioned

to make a run at another Super Bowl title.

We opened the new stadium in Philly,

and they brought Rocky out and everything,

and we just decimated them.

Firing toward the end zone quarter.

Caught in bounds!

Joe Jurevicius hits a touchdown!

And what a way to begin things here.

Good job, Joe!

Get you some!

And that is tip and picked off.

We got some hitting going on down there.

Yo, y'all right!

I'ma knock that chip off!

Here's Brad Johnson gets the ball off,

and it's caught by Warren Sapp to the 15th!

Sapp to the 11-year-old line!

He's got a Buccaneer first down!

Oh, we got it!

Here comes the jailbreak blitz. Throw pass call!

Bounce in the air!

And it is... oh! He caught it!

- Joe Jurevicius! - Caught it!

We kicked their butt. Shut them out.

We look great, too.

I mean, we beat a good football team

at their place in a brand new stadium.

They looked even better than the 02 team,

so people at that time said,

hey, this team's got a real chance to repeat in 2003.

You can hear pin drop in the Linc.

You guys saw Rocky. You saw him, right?

Apollo Creed came to town. You guys did a hell of a job.

Hell of a job.

Early that season,

I got hurt in the Carolina game.

Mike, I guess, got his heels kind of clipped together.

Somebody dove to tackle him.

When he fell forward, it just so happened that my knee was there,

and he caught it and hurt his neck, and I hurt my knee.

You know, I knew it wasn't good.

I hit Joe, and I blew out his knee.

Joe is sitting there screaming.

His knee's totally blown out.

I'm sitting there dazed and stuff like that.

Walk off the field, loosen it up, and boom.

I go out and play the rest of the game,

and then I wake up the next day, and I can't move my neck.

So we're like, hey, let's get an MRI,

and then let's go find a neurologist

to get this checked out.

And they say, well, you got herniation.

You probably need surgery after the season.

And I'm like, hey, Doc,

Monday, we're playing Indianapolis Colts.

Coach Dungy's team.

Do I have risk of paralysis?

He's like, no.

Thanks, Doc. I'm out of here.

I'm playing.

What light through yonder television beams?

It is prime time in the east.

A Monday night drama hath begun.

Welcome to Tampa, much-anticipated game.

Tony Dungy comes home.

October 6th happens to be my return to Tampa and my birthday.

How could they script that?

He's coming here with a 4-0 team trying

to beat the defending world champion.

That's what his goal is.

I hate to spoil Dungy's homecoming.

And everybody knew what that game meant.

Tony's coming back.

You know, this is still his hometown.

Wants to beat John and wants to beat the Bucs.

This is a gem. This is a must-see TV game.

Mike Allstott, he's got a nagging neck injury.

He's been seeing some specialists.

When we talked to John Gruden, the Tampa coach yesterday,

he thought the chances of Allstott playing were minimal,

and here they go with a no-huddle to start the game.

And they hit Allstott.

So here comes Mike.

And making the catch,

Keenan McCardell for a touchdown.

It's a few times I remember Raymond James Stadium

being as loud as it was.

I mean, the crowd was rocking.

Jonathan steps up, a floater that just

hangs in the air like a hanging curveball.

And Mike Doss picks it up, and he fumbles.

And the Bucs have it.

And McCardell is going to run to the end zone

for his second touchdown of the game.

Even Gruden can't believe it.

Probably 55 minutes of that game, we're dominating.

Brad Johnson goes to the end zone,

and it is caught for a touchdown by McCardell.

Indianapolis. This is a team that's supposed to be, you know,

competing for Super Bowls.

They're not good enough.

We are as good as we think we are.

And near sack again, a walking duck.

There's your interception by Ronde Barber.

So a sack and an interception on this drive, and a touchdown.

He greets Peyton Manning and just picks that thing off.

And this is what John Gruden does so well, is seal the deal.

Doesn't look like Allstott going to be sealing this deal up.

Somewhere around the second half,

I get my head caught helping the defensive end do a chip, right?

Give him a little chip for him.

I get my head stuck in there, boom, and I go down.

And I'm all on all fours,

and I got millions of needles going through my body.

Allstott went to a specialist in Pittsburgh today.

There's more than mild concern.

I don't think there's only concern

whether he could play tonight or not.

The game's going on. The game's still in progress.

Malcolm walks into the locker room,

to see how I'm doing.

My father, in that situation with Mike,

it was... he just really loved Mike.

When you have a father and son and families that,

you know, the Glazer family that,

you know, care about their players and stuff like that.

I mean, that was everything to me, right?

That was everything to me.

The owner coming down and checking on me.

Horrible moment, but an awesome moment.

So it's fourth down and inches now.

Under four minutes to play, Indy trying to stay alive.

And Mungro scores.

There was only four more minutes to go.

And then it's hard to explain what took place.

Indianapolis Colts are ready. to onside kick this one.

And he has it.

We just came unraveled.

It was like we could not do anything right.

And the Colts couldn't do anything wrong.

It's Harrison for the touchdown.

And they're down by one score.

Derrick Brooks is saying we got to go out and seal the deal.

We thought we had this deal sealed a couple of times,

and we still haven't sealed it.

So Manning now has to go 85 yards in 101 seconds.

Manning.

Deep and out in front and catching is Harrison.

He's down to the five-yard line.

Williams, is he in?

The touchdown is good.

This is off the charts.

Just an amazing comeback.

They scored 21 points in five minutes

against the number one defense that year.

I got shot by the sheriff.

And we will go to one of the more improbable overtimes

in recent times.

It all just fell apart.

It was the most unbelievable last couple

of minutes of the game.

Reaching down, finding more.

And it's going to come down to a Vanderjagt field goal

to pull off one of the most amazing wins ever.

And it is no good.

A flag is down though. There's a flag down.

Unsportsmanlike conduct.

Number 97, defense.

Simeon Rice, leaping.

They said Simeon Rice climbed up the back of a Buc teammate,

and that was technically against the rules.

Here's Simeon Rice here.

Now he can leap as long as he doesn't step on someone.

What is that?

That hadn't made that call since 1945.

And now 29 yard attempt by Vanderjagt.

He hits the upright, and it bangs through.

How crazy is this?

On Tony Dungy's birthday, and his homecoming.

I don't know how it's possible to lose a game

with that kind of lead with five minutes to go, but we did.

I think when the game was over,

there's only 5,000 people in the stands.

Everybody left because they thought

we were going to win the game.

I don't think any of us could explain

what really happened that night.

It was a nightmare.

Through the beginning of that year,

there was an air of invincibility about us.

And at the end of that game, that crushed us a little bit.

There are games where you just see things coming,

and you see it, and you can't believe it.

As much as the game in San Diego back in '96

was a turning point for the Tampa Buccaneers,

this game in 2003 was a bookend to the San Diego game.

This is where things just started to go south for us.

My relationship really fell apart with John Gruden.

The year we won the Super Bowl, he lost me there.

I remember we were playing a Monday night game

against the St. Louis Rams,

and he didn't have a catch in the second half.

Keyshawn a little frustrated, obviously,

because he just wants the damn ball.

A play was called in the huddle that was given to Brad.

He called the play,

but it wasn't what John thought he called.

So he calls a timeout.

We all come to the sideline.

And my receiver coach, Coach Mann,

is trying to tell me John Gruden called

such and such and such and such,

because this is what John said he called.

And I'm like, that's not what he fucking called.

Now he tells me to come out, put Keenan in.

I know what people are going to say.

I fucked up is what they're going to say.

When you go 22 personnel, we called it you personnel.

There's only one receiver in the game.

And then you got to call the receiver's name out.

So I remember going you, McCardell,

and Keyshawn had to come out of the game.

He couldn't believe it.

So now he's telling me I messed up.

And I'm like, dude, I didn't say dude.

But I'm like, no, I didn't fucking mess up.

And so I'm walking away.

I'm like, man, whatever, man,

I ain't got time for your bullshit.

Basically is what I was saying in my head.

So I walk away and he said smart ass.

So that's when I turned around and I told him

I beat his motherfucking ass on Monday night right here

if he said another motherfucking word.

Look, I'm trying to win the game,

trying to put the best players out there.

And I think his opinion of his game

was a little bit different than mine. Sorry.

I don't know the two ever saw eye to eye.

The personalities are such that it brings combustion.

Fast forward to 2003.

We go out to play in San Francisco.

I ain't touching the ball.

He's not getting me the football.

I start getting the ball toward the end of the game.

We getting smashed.

But I walked back toward the sideline and I told him,

now you want to get me the motherfucking football.

But I said some other stuff to him.

This would turn into X-rated.

But I gave him just a earful.

And I made an executive decision

to stay in San Francisco

to go to my kid's teacher parent conference.

We're flying home. He wasn't on the plane.

You know, and I don't have a lot of team rules.

And, obviously, that's one of them.

The situation with Keyshawn is a tale as old as time.

Star player comes in. Big chip on their shoulder.

Expects to be the center of attention.

Expects to get the ball all the time.

And John wasn't going to do it.

You know, there was friction along the way.

He comes in Gruben's office.

I don't like you. I don't like your offense.

I don't like nothing about this place.

Keyshawn was the death of that team right there.

He killed our momentum on offense.

He killed Gruben's spirit.

It was just a bad situation when we threw him off the team.

I didn't even go in the room for a vote.

Y'all already know how I feel about it.

So they went in five captains without me and five nothing.

We all voted to send him out of there.

We was all sick of that shit.

We came up with this idea of permanently deactivating him.

I've never got suspended. I've never been suspended.

Never. So let's not use suspension.

Deactivated. Big difference.

The Glazers would still have money in their pocket

if I was suspended. We must remember that.

That was kind of how it abruptly ended

as a Tampa Bay Buccaneer.

Be careful what you wish for. Now you got it.

If you're not happy now with four and six

and I doubt that you are,

let's see how happy you are with

this offense in the next six games.

That season post-Super Bowl had a lot

of strange things throughout it.

Amongst them was Rich starting out as our general manager.

It was tension behind the scenes with John.

John has an extremely strong personality

and Rich didn't operate that way.

He wasn't a yeller, he wasn't a screamer.

He came from being an attorney at trade

and ended up being a general manager.

Different personalities. Never quite got along.

And you know, you work your way through the season.

It was clear that Rich really didn't want to stick around.

You don't have time in the moment.

I mean when it's happening, it's happening.

You have to react and you got to make a decision.

Yeah, I'd be anxious to hear Rich's interpretation

of what happened.

I know what happened and I didn't come down here today

honestly to dig deep into that.

I'll let Rich handle that.

We had this philosophy that we had started back

with Tony which was you know we're gonna draft.

We're gonna develop and we're gonna resign our players

and then we'll use a little money

to sprinkle in a free agent or two.

John wanted a veteran older team guys

that never made mental errors.

He created a friction between personnel

and coaches to the point where it just didn't feel

like it was a trusting relationship.

It was absolutely not in the best interest

of the franchise that I stay there and fight that fight.

We never harbored any ill will towards Rich.

We understood but at the same token

what's the rush of the middle of the season here?

Within about two weeks he's in the...

this city owner's box with the Atlanta Falcons.

I mean he left the week we were playing the Falcons.

That conversation has been going on the entire game.

It was unfortunate but that's how things work out.

And for the Bucs their reign

as champions has ended.

They will not get a chance to defend in the playoffs.

2003 should have been another Super Bowl year.

You think this thing's gonna last,

you're gonna have a dynasty.

Sometimes it doesn't happen. It didn't happen for us.

You know, it was important after

we had a friction between Rich and John

that we have somebody that John's gonna have

a good working relationship with

so if we could bring in Bruce Allen to work with John,

they'd work together in Oakland.

We're looking forward to the future here.

It's gonna be all about the Bucs.

There's no more I's... no more him did it

or he did it or that did it.

We're all in this together.

When I decided to go to Tampa

it was with some mixed feelings.

I loved a lot of the people with the Raiders organization

but a firm believer that John Gruden's future

was still very bright.

The bad news was their salary cap was the shits.

The payments all came due.

We had to break up the team somewhat.

Being a head coach is tough

but I'm the one that was the head coach

and we let Warren go to the Raiders

of all people and we let Lynch go to Denver.

There was a collective gasp from this big crowd

when they saw John Lynch down and on the ground.

Genuine, genuine concern amongst our football people.

He could have a serious, serious injury if he continued playing.

You go hit them like you never hit someone.

Let's go.

In this day and age in the NFL, you suffer enough injuries,

you're just not gonna withstand them.

I had bone spurs that were hitting my nerves

but I was upset with the way it was handled

by Gruden and Bruce Allen.

The Glazers, I understood, they were just owners

but I felt like they could have had

a bigger voice in doing that.

They say they regret it to this day.

When you're an owner you learn things along the way.

I think the lesson for us was think

long and hard about thinking you can replace

Hall of Fame players with just the next guy.

I think that was the beginning of people

realizing a certain era was over.

Working our butts off.

We were gonna make Tampa Bay a winner.

We had a lot of good players and Hall of Famers,

but he was a guy that could put

a losing franchise on his back.

A loud, boisterous piss you off.

To this day, I never know what kind of greeting

I'm gonna get from Sapp.

You about a dumb as a box of rocks.

But Sapp was a very good teammate.

He was immensely talented.

You could see it from the second he put his pads on.

He's gonna chin check you

and see what you're made of.

We do it our motherfucking work.

Dominate on three.

One, two, three, dominate.

All Warren wants is that he knows

he could walk down an alley with you.

That's all he wants to know.

The guy deep down, he genuinely cares

about the people that he loves.

He genuinely cares about his teammates,

but he wanted nobody to know.

Right now, I could pick up my cell phone and say,

Warren, I need you.

He'd be on a plane right now and drop whatever he's got.

Yeah, we're brothers for life, no doubt about it.

We love coming together and having fun.

And we talk all the time.

It was just a beautiful place

and a beautiful time for all of us.

And we took advantage.

As our team, you know, post Super Bowl

started to take on new faces and identities

and Warren not here, John's not here.

Honest part about it is I just never...

personally never accepted that they were not my teammates.

And I hid that by trying to focus on the team

that was currently in front of me that I was a part of.

In 2005 season, we come out of the block strong.

And it's really on the legs of Cadillac Williams.

He's sensational.

John has worked him in to the offense brilliantly.

What a turnaround, from five and 11 to 11 and five.

Chris Simms came in and took us to the playoffs

and did a hell of a job.

Going to air it out down the middle of the field

for Galloway.

Touchdown.

What a throw by number 2, Chris Simms.

That's big, 2.

You really rooted for him.

He was that guy you're like, I really like this guy.

Like, he's supposed to be successful

because he's such a good person off the field.

Simms fires to the end zone, touchdown.

Joey Galloway.

We felt like we were rolling.

And definitely went to the playoffs going,

we could get to the Super Bowl.

The Buccaneers move on.

They win their fifth division title.

I can't tell you how much I'm proud of you guys.

We win the division and we're getting

to play the Washington Redskins.

It's no doubt the game that still haunts me to this day.

As a player, you know, you feel like,

hell, we're kind of the better team.

Simms, touchdown.

What a play.

We have a chance to tie it up with under a minute in the game.

It comes down to this.

The Bucs need a touchdown to tie, nothing less.

Simms, deep.

Touchdown.

Edell Shepard lost the ball when he hit the ground.

Are you kidding?

The ball came loose and hit the ground, incomplete.

You've got to have control of the ball when you come down.

You suck, Ref!

That's bull!

One of those days where you just go, what if?

Yeah, that one still hurts me a lot.

Tony Dungy is still well known in Tampa

for turning the Bucs into a winning team.

Now Tony Dungy grieves the loss of his eldest son.

When I left the Buccaneers,

my oldest son, James, is living down here in Tampa.

And we get a message from the Tampa Police Department

that he's passed away, that it's probably a suicide.

James was a good young man with a compassionate heart.

We appreciate everybody that's touched his life,

everybody that's been part of him growing up.

And we were glad to have him for 18 years.

We'd gotten to know the Dungy family so well.

And you just felt like not them, you know, and not James.

And I remember going with my wife to James's memorial.

And you didn't really know what to say.

And Tony was kind of the one

that was comforting everybody else.

You think about his faith,

which is so strong and the family's faith,

he was the comforter.

The apostle Paul talks about being comforted.

And he says, we're comforted

so that we can give comfort to other people.

And it always comes full circle.

Football's brought Tony and I together.

Probably so that we could comfort each other

in a time that we most needed it.

One of the things that really got me through

not too long before that, Trent Dilfer's son Trevon,

had gone through a tough time and gotten sick

and didn't recover and passed away as a really young boy.

And I remember talking to Trent

and he was so strong during that time.

I also had perspective in

the midst of the pain because of my faith.

And he said, well, the Lord will give you the strength.

And that was so true that you don't think

you can make it through.

But the Lord puts people around you to help you.

You saw guys come from everywhere.

I mean, from every team that Coach Dungy is a part of,

you could really tell what he did for people.

That was a tough day for all of us

because he was a little kid

that came around pretty much every day.

And he was a part of our family.

The one person that was grieving hardest visibly

was Malcolm Glazer.

And I thought, wow, you know,

like that's a side I hadn't seen of him.

Malcolm Glazer and my son James had such a great relationship.

Jamie was a ball boy for us.

And so he'd always ride over to the games with me.

And Malcolm would always talk to him.

And they became very close.

He and Malcolm just hugged each other,

just stood there hugging and hugging and hugging each other.

And I went to go, like, pull my father away

because he'd been hugging him for so long.

And Tony kind of put his hand up and said, no, it's okay.

Let him do this.

But it just kind of showed the relationship

and the fondness my father had for Tony

because he was just heartbroken.

I don't know if anybody really understood it

as much as Malcolm and Tony, how each felt.

I mean, Malcolm really felt for Tony.

We've got the best people with the most enthusiasm

and I'm so proud to be a part of this team.

We're gonna have a lot of formations,

a lot of things that we do,

maybe are a little bit unconventional.

Maybe you like them, maybe you don't.

Here we go into 2006.

So we're 0-2.

We're not playing our best football,

and a lot's because of me.

So now it's week three, and it's the Carolina Panthers.

It's our rivals.

It was gonna be physical, hard-hitting football.

Third drive, I'm about to throw it in the pocket.

I'm kind of winding up.

And as I'm about to throw it,

somebody kind of flashes in the way.

So I pull it back down.

Thomas Davis running right at me.

So I wanted to throw it,

and kind of just duck away, right?

And take the hit, right?

Like duck and chuck.

As I was throwing, Jenkins hits me.

Sandwich, and finally gets rid of it.

Thomas Davis hits me right in the stomach.

And I had a pain that I had never felt before.

The wind knocked out of me times 20.

I don't know what's wrong with me.

I couldn't catch my breath.

Stomach was spasming to such a point

where I didn't feel like I could even stand up straight or talk.

Now it's football.

My dad was the quarterback of the Giants, Phil Simms.

I'm from freakin' Jersey.

Now I'm not letting somebody else come in,

and they win the football game, and now it's one and two,

and there's a quarterback controversy.

There's no way. I'm not doing it.

All right, the bones aren't sticking out.

There's no blood.

I'm gonna keep playing.

I've worked my whole life to be the starting quarterback.

I'm not coming out.

Simm's looking, Simm's looking.

Game goes on as physical as hell.

Run for the touchdown!

Touchdown, Tampa Bay!

Unfortunately, they beat us, and game was over.

Jake Delholm, I can still remember him coming up to me

and going, like, are you okay?

You don't look good, because I was white as a ghost.

Our team doctor, the great Joe Diaco, comes,

pushes around on me.

He goes, I don't know.

He goes, maybe it's your spleen.

He goes, I think we need

to go to the emergency room right now.

I've lost nine pints of blood.

You only have 14.

It's all in my abdomen

and creating such pressure that I can't take a deep breath.

My lungs can't expand,

because I got blood all in my chest and abdomen.

They put me in a CAT scan, and they run out of the room.

It's bad, Chris, we're going right into surgery.

When they brought my wife in to say bye,

or just in case,

because they weren't sure I was gonna make it.

One second, hold on.

I just remembered thinking, like, I'll be okay,

but refuse to believe I would be anything but okay.

But I do remember thinking, like, damn,

I just had a little girl.

Can't believe this is happening.

More news now.

Word is Tampa Bay Bucs quarterback Chris Simms

is in good spirits today

after undergoing a successful splenectomy.

Surgery to have his spleen removed.

But in all likelihood, his 2006 season is over.

My time with the Tampa Bay Bucs was special.

When I got hurt, it's the day

I'm probably most remembered for.

The day I think that Bucs fans still come up to me about,

that they remember it, and that they appreciate me.

And that's why Bucs fans are awesome.

Not making any excuses.

John Gruden's a 4 and 12 coach,

and ticked off about it, and I'm sure our fans are too,

but we're gonna be back.

You know, it doesn't seem like it now,

but this will be good for us.

We'll find a way to make good out of this.

We're at the point right now,

we gotta go back and fix those cracks in our foundation.

I remember the off season where we said,

we gotta get a quarterback.

And it was Jeff Garcia who was gonna be a free agent.

I think John Gruden was a little bit snake bit

to try to take another chance on a rookie quarterback.

He needed a veteran who had the experience in the huddle

to be able to quickly understand

and digest these wordy, lengthy play calls.

So before the 2007 season,

we signed Jeff Garcia in free agency,

and we were happy.

He brought a lot of that energy that we needed at the time.

He was a playmaker.

Throws a pass downfield toward Joey Galloway.

Touchdown, Tampa Bay!

Yeah, baby!

I see you, Jeff, I see you, baby!

He was a good mix for John.

John could push him in the right direction and got us going.

You're the life of the party, man!

It's your team right here, let's go!

And we won the division with him.

So it was hard to question John's feeling

about veteran quarterbacks.

You know, every other year we were, you know,

in the playoffs or sniffing the playoffs,

and that's what made it exciting,

and we knew we'd be competitive.

I remember playing the New York Giants in the playoffs.

The Buccaneers have not won a playoff game

since they won the Super Bowl five years ago.

First quarter dominated by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Touchdown!

Since then, it has been all Giants.

Garcia throw with an easy pick.

Poor decision by Garcia.

The New York Giants have scored 24 unanswered points.

This wild card game is over.

Just disappointing.

I just hope that we can continue to build together

and create better opportunities next year.

12-year NFL veteran Mike Allstott

announced his retirement on Thursday.

He was a six-time pro bowler

and spent his entire career in Tampa Bay.

But Allstott's career was cut short by neck injuries.

The most recent put him on IR this past season.

An emotional Allstott was thankful for the fans' support.

The hardest thing is to stand up in front of you

and say that you can't play.

Mike Allstott,

just so special in this Buccaneer story.

From his rookie year on, I think he gave us the identity,

even the defensive players would say that.

That type of energy that he brought to the whole team was,

you can't say enough about it,

because we're sitting on the sideline

watching him do this, and all you want to do is go play.

Mike was everything you would want in a teammate,

everything you'd want in a brother,

everything you'd want any day of the week and twice on Sunday.

That's the mold you're looking for.

He just had a mental toughness,

physical toughness combination that was legendary.

Helping build a team and a program

and an organization and do it with class

and do it with character

and do it with friends that are unbelievable people.

That's what it's all about.

Man, I'm blessed.

We are all blessed to be here.

The Bucs are feeling pretty good about themselves these days.

Win!

This is a team that has been to the playoffs

in two of the last three seasons,

and right now they think they've got a very good shot

to make that three out of four.

You gotta keep rolling, baby.

2008, it was a pretty seminal year.

More change was coming.

A lot of change was coming.

We were nine and three,

and in first place, playing pretty good.

And the Buccaneers win their fourth game in a row,

and they control their own destiny.

They have the lead in the division,

and they'll go 6-and-0 at home.

We got four games left,

and we are looking to clinch playoff position,

we're looking possibly to be the number one seed.

And that week,

Monte had announced that he is going to leave

at the end of the season to go join his son,

coaching in college.

I think we still had four weeks at least left in the season.

That was a shock.

And you think it's not a distraction,

but it becomes a little bit of a distraction.

The Panthers will have defeated the Tampa Bay Buccaneers

for NFC South Supremacy.

But we're fighting in every game.

Atlanta Falcons send the Bucs home with two losses in a week.

All we had to do was win one of the games

and we're going to be in the playoffs.

But the Buccaneers lose three in a row

for the first time in a couple of seasons.

And then it leads to the end of the season.

We're playing the Oakland Raiders.

Tampa Bay will look to right the ship today,

needing a win and some good fortune

to get into the playoffs for John Gruden.

We're playing against JaMarcus Russell

who didn't have a lot of success against anybody else,

and we made him look like a Hall of Famer.

Russell, he's hit by and throws it

and it's a touchdown, Shillings.

They were just lighting us up.

And then the bottom just dropped out.

They've got to win to stay in the playoff picture,

but they've not come out with what you would think

they would come out with in a game so important.

You know what's at stake? They're playing for their jobs.

First down and 10 for the Oakland Raiders.

Big block by Cornell Green.

He got by-- Oh, there he goes.

Look at this run.

Chased by Barber. Chased by Buchanan.

And he is in for the touchdown.

A 67-yard sprint.

It was pretty obvious that Tampa Bay was not the same.

And we went from 9-3 to 9-7, and we're out of the playoffs.

Monte, choosing to go to Tennessee,

I'm not going to say that's the reason

that we ended with the four straight losses,

but it didn't help, that's for sure.

You know, you can point to a lot of things.

But unfortunately, the season ended on a very downward note.

You know, the ultimate goal is to win a championship.

And one experience we did have was what happened

several years before, and it was drafting some young,

great players, building the team that way.

So we end up saying, you know,

maybe the best thing to do at this point in time

is to start over.

I remember meeting with the Glazers.

What are we going to do to turn this team around?

What are we going to do to get back to the Super Bowl

and win it?

It was a hard decision, but I decided

that it was time to change both general manager and head coach.

Bruce Allen called me,

and he said, hey, we're fired.

And then out of the goodness of Joel's heart,

he called me up and asked if I wanted

to see him face to face.

I just thanked him for the opportunity

and apologized for not getting it done.

That was it.

I remember having a conversation in Palm Beach

with my brother Joel and saying one thing to him.

News spread fast that Jon Gruden is out.

The announcement leaves fans wondering

about the future of the franchise.

Huh.

Greatest Buc of all time.

Oh, God.

Uh...

Oh, boy.

Yeah.

To me, the greatest Buc of all time is Leroy Selman.

I will say Leroy Selman.

Leroy Selman.

He played on those bad Bucs teams.

Jimmy Johnson has told me stories at the Hall of Fame.

And I've heard people ask,

who's the greatest player you ever coached?

And he's coached Emmett Smith and all these guys.

And he goes, guys, I got to tell you,

it's Leroy Selman.

What Leroy means to the Tampa Bay community

and his family legacy, second to none,

I'm still chasing that goal in my young life,

in the standards that he set.

To be the first makes you the best in my mind.

Because there's always going to be great players.

There's always going to be great players.

But he was the first.

So that makes him the best in my mind.

I just think, you know...

it's not a me sport, you know what I mean?

You say Brooks, you say Lynch,

you say Warren, you say whatever.

Everybody has their different loves and stuff like that.

And they did different things for this organization,

this community and stuff.

And, you know, I'm just glad to be a part of it.